More Inequality, Less Chocolate

Tyler Cowen on the Widening Wage Gap and Steve Almond and Lina Khan on the Candy Industry’s Consolidation

Economist Tyler Cowen, author of Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation, talks with Andrés Martinez about America’s growing inequality, and why our best hope for combating it lies in Texas. The rest of the country is going to look more like Houston than midtown Manhattan, says Cowen. Candyfreak author Steve Almond and New America policy analyst Lina Khan talk with Martinez and Anne-Marie Slaughter about why we should mourn the candy industry’s consolidation. Regional treats used to be a source of civic pride (and deliciousness). Now, we’re choosing almost exclusively between Hershey, Mars, and Nestle products in the candy aisle.

Andrés Martinez is editorial director of Zócalo Public Square and vice president of the New America Foundation. Anne-Marie Slaughter is president and CEO of the New America Foundation, and the Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University.
*Photo courtesy of Raymond M.
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